Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.
Alan J. Perlis
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay